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Wilsey, Sean Oh the Glory of It All
Penguin Books 2005 0143036912 / 9780143036913 Trade Paperback Very Good +
Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. 484 pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. Synopsis Sean's blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the family's marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily together "eight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; in an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows, full of water and bridges and hills." But when his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend, Sean's life blows apart. His memoir shows us how he survived, spinning out a "deliriously searing and convincing" portrait of a wicked stepmother (The New York Times Book Review), a meeting with the pope, sexual awakening, and a tour of "the planet's most interesting reform schools" (Details). BACKCOVER: "A memoir that announces the debut of a remarkably gifted, daring and, yes, very funny, writer." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The cliché 'truth is stranger than fiction' may well have been coined to describe Sean Wilsey's wild, wise, and whip-smart memoir." Elle "[An] irreverent and remarkably candid memoir about growing up in wealthy eighties San Francisco . . . rollicking, ruthless . . . ultimately generous-hearted." Vogue "A vivid mix of brio, self-awareness and sophistication . . . writing well is indeed the best revenge." The New York Times Book Review The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani It's a sprawling kitchen sink of a memoir, stuffed to the gills with seemingly everything the author can remember about his youth and in dire need of some industrial-strength editing, but at the same time, an epic performance: by turns heartfelt, absurd, self-indulgent, self-abasing, silly and genuinely moving. A memoir that manages to encompass riffs about the joys of skateboarding, the woes of high society, the miseries of boarding school and the perils of new money and new age therapies with equal aplomb, a memoir that can make the reader remember - no, re-experience - what it was like to be a wretched child and even more wretched teenager with ridiculous, Proustian ease. Biography Sean Wilsey's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, and McSweeney's quarterly, where he is the editor at large.
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Wilsey, Sean Oh The Glory Of It All
New York, New York, U.S.A. Penguin Press 2005 1594200513 / 9781594200519 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. 486 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Illustrated. Synopsis Sean's blond-bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the family's marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily together "eight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; in an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows, full of water and bridges and hills." But when his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend, Sean's life blows apart. His memoir shows us how he survived, spinning out a "deliriously searing and convincing" portrait of a wicked stepmother (The New York Times Book Review), a meeting with the pope, sexual awakening, and a tour of "the planet's most interesting reform schools" (Details). BACKCOVER: "A memoir that announces the debut of a remarkably gifted, daring and, yes, very funny, writer." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The cliché ‘truth is stranger than fiction' may well have been coined to describe Sean Wilsey's wild, wise, and whip-smart memoir." Elle "[An] irreverent and remarkably candid memoir about growing up in wealthy eighties San Francisco . . . rollicking, ruthless . . . ultimately generous-hearted." Vogue "A vivid mix of brio, self-awareness and sophistication . . . writing well is indeed the best revenge." The New York Times Book Review
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